New on Blu-ray: RIO GRANDE (1950) Starring John Wayne & Maureen O'Hara - Olive Signature Edition

Product Description: Rio Grande, the third and final installment in John Ford's loosely-conceived Cavalry Trilogy(preceded by Fort Apache and She Wore A Yellow Ribbon) stars John Wayne as Lt. Col. John Kirby Yorke (the role he inhabited in Fort Apache) alongside Maureen O'Hara (in the first of five films she'd co-star in alongside Wayne) as his estranged wife, Kathleen, a woman set on keeping their son, Jefferson (Claude Jarman Jr., The Yearling), now under Yorke's command, out of harm's way.

Filmed throughout Moab, Utah and the majestic Professor Valley -- photographed in exquisite gradations of black and white by Stagecoach cinematographer Bert Glennon -- Rio Grande offers nuanced observations on love, family, and honor, while firmly adhering to the western genre, showing Ford at his most measured and mature as a storyteller.Written by James Kevin McGuinness (Men of Boys Town) based on the Saturday Evening Post story by James Warner Bellah, Rio Grande features J. Carrol Naish and a supporting cast of familiar faces, many of them from the Ford stock company of actorsincluding Harry Carey, Jr., Ben Johnson, Victor McLaglen, Chill Wills, and Grant Withers.

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Director: John Ford

Starring: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Merian C. Cooper, Ben Johnson

Genre: Romance, Western

Runtime: 106 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Olive Films

Home Video Release Date: November 17, 2020

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Region: Region A/1

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Audio commentary by Nancy Schoenberger
"Telling Real Histories" – Raoul Trujillo on representations of Indigenous Americans in film
"Songs of the Rio Grande" – Marc Wanamaker on the Sons of the Pioneers
"Strength and Courage" – Patrick Wayne on his father
"Bigger Than Life" – with Claude Jarman, Jr.
Visual essay by Tag Gallagher
"The Making of Rio Grande" – with Leonard Maltin
Theatrical trailer
Illustrated booklet with an essay by Paul Andrew Hutton